Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.

4.1
796 reviews
Content rating
Rated for 12+
10K+
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Content rating
Rated for 12+
Moderate Violence, Horror
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About this game

Finally, the console award winning slash-'em-up arrives to Android in the most polished and refined version yet, the Special Edition.

ā–ŗ Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.

ā–ŗ 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.

ā–ŗ 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.

ā–ŗ 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.

ā–ŗ Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.

ā–ŗ 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.

ā–ŗ 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.

ā–ŗ 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.

Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.

Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Features:

ā— Achievements.
ā— Haptic Vibration.
ā— From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
ā— Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
ā— Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
ā— Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
ā— All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
Updated on
Sep 25, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
764 reviews
Neil Faram
July 2, 2026
This is a purely subjective take. I dunno if it's because I'm burned out on difficult games, or there's something boring about this games difficulty in particular. But I just don't find it fun. I think it's due to the combat sections mainly consisting of enemy waves almost all the time. Gets tedious really quick. But I can definitely see others living this.
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Zahara Aurora Mastisatya
June 23, 2026
Perhaps I'm am 10 years late delving into the fandom. I recently finished the game and it was captivating. It has more to look at and offer, I still haven't covered all of the secrets, outfits or the weapons yet. What's more touching is that this is inspired on the game creator's heart disease. I can't thank you enough for that it has been such a beautiful journey despite it's in a matter of bits and blocks and music.
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Gary Olimb
May 11, 2026
this game is a hidden gem, the pixel art is amazing to look at. the combat is punishing but addictive, and requires your full attention to what is going on. hyper light drifter specializes in show don't tell, it almost never tells you what's going on, leaving you to make connections and context cluse. the game likes to hide things from wether that be a heal or a upgrade you have to explore to find something. be careful when loading out of the game for it may reset sometimes when you leave.
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What’s new

We've just updated Hyper Light Drifter for Android devices.

- Support for controllers has been improved. Now the game supports PS4, Xbox and Android controllers.

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